Casket-handle.



PATENTED JULY 10, 1906.

B. R. SARGBNT. GASKET HANDLE.

APPLIGATLON HLBD IFAEJB, 1902.

INVENTOH R 8 (Lu-J WITNESSES:

ATTORNEY 1H: NORRIS rlrnu co., wAsnmomu. 0. av

(TNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD R. SARGENT, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICU'I.. ASSIGNQR TO SARGENT & COMPANY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CDRPO- RATION OF CONNECTICUT.

CASKET-HANDLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 18, 1 906.

Application filed March 26,1962. Serial 1%. 100,087.

To will whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD R. SARGENT, of the cit and county of New Haven and State of onnecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Casket-Handles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, when taken in connection with the accompenyin drawings, which form a part thereof, and in WhiCh- Fi ure I represents a portion of a caskethandle and one socket, illustrating in invention; Fig. 2, a reverse View of the socket and associated parts; Fig. 3, a vertical section on lines 3 3 of Fig. 2 5 Fig. 4, a similar View with the arm and its core shown in its raised position; Figs. 5 and 6, detail views, in side and front elevation, 01 the reinforoin -plate; and Figs. 7 to 12 represent corresponding views of a modified form of my invention.

In all the figures similar letters of reference represent like parts.

This mvention relates to casket-handles,

and more particularly to that class in which the handle-arm on socket-plate, or both, are provided with reinforcing-plates, of hard metal, to carry the'strain, and has for its object the production of a simple, effective, and novel handle.

To this end the invention consists in the various improvements and combinations of parts described and claimed hereinafter.

Referring to the drawings, the parts designated by the letter A represent a casket handie-bar, B the handle-arms, and C the socketplate to which the arm is pivoted.

5 represents a thin hard-metal core about which the soft-metal arm is cast.

3) is a perforation at one end for the arm A, and i5 is a smaller perforation at the other end for the pivot-pin D.

E represents a reinforcing-plate, of hard metal or other suitable material, about which the soft-metal socketlate may be cast or otherwise secured. t its upper end it is provided with a narrow slot 6, the two sides of which are formed by the prolongation e of the plate. These proicngations may he turned over on themselves, as shown in Fig. 5, to form bearings e f or the pivot-pin D.

e represents holes in the lower part of the plate, which are adapted to register with similar holes in the socket-plate C for the screws attaching the socket to the casket or other article.

F is a piece of metal out from the lower part of the reinforcing-plate and turned upward to a point about the height of the bearings e to form a support. In the extreme upper end is a slot f of sufiicient width to receive the end of the narrow core 5. core?) is provided on its under side with a transverse slot of width to take over the end of the piece F.

The socket-plate C may be rovidcd with trunnions c to register with tie bearings e and into which the ivot-pin D may extend, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. l. The pivotpin D would then connect the core I) of the arm B not only to the reinforcing-plate E, but also to the socket-plate 0. Upon swinging up the outer end of the arm B its inner end of the core I; swings downward and rests on the support F in the slot f, and as at the same time the slot 5 takes over the end of the piece F, as shown in Fig. 4, the core 5 and support interlock or engage each other. By this means the force exerted on the handlebar A is transmitted through the hard-metal core I) to the hard-metal reinforcing-plate E, which 18 secured with the socket-plate to the casket or other article by screws or other suitable means. The upward-turned su port F takes the downward ressure of t e inner end of the arm, while t e engagement between the end of the core of the arm and support prevents any tendency of the arm toward longitudinal movement as well as toward lateral rackin or wahhling.

7 In the modified orrn shown in Figs. to 12 the hearings for the pivot pln D are formed not prolonging and turning over the ends, but by giving the prolongations G of the plate a twist to extend them at right angles to the plene of the main portion of the plate, as fully shown in Figs. 11 and 12. Perforations 9 in the prolongations then form the bearings for the pin The slot 9 for the inner end of the core is herein provided by the parallel prclon ations. Furthermore, in the socket-plate ii ustrated in Figs. 7 to 12 trunnions with bearings are omitted, so that the core I) is secured to the reinforcing-plate alone, and the reinforcing-plate is entirely within the hollow interior of the socket-plate,

This end of the so that the bearing for the pivot-pin and the pin itself are inclosed within the socket-plate. By this means when the socket-plate is sufficicntly convex, as shown in the drawings, the riveting of the pivot-pin is performed in. the interior or from the rear of the socket-plate, so that the rivet or pivot-pin not only does not show from the front of the plate, but the plate itself is not marred by its insertion. The fulcrum of the arm in this construction is well within the interior of the socket-plate and not outside of the plane of the main portion of the socket-plate.

Having now described my invention, which may vary in detail without departing from the spirit thereof, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a casket-handle, or similar article, the combination with the arm of the handle; of a reinforcing-plate, having a slot at its upper end to receive the inner end of the arm; prolongations of said plate forming bearings for the arm; and a support upturned from said plate to form a stop for the innr end of said arm, substantially as described.

2. In a casket-handle, or similar article, the combination with the arm of the handle;

of a reinforcing-plate having a slot for the innor end of said arm; prolon ations of said plate forming bearings for tie arm; and a support upturned from said plate having a slot at its upper end to engage with the inner end of the arm when the outer end is raised, substantially as described.

3. In a casket-handle or similar article, the combination with the arm of the handle; of a rcinfcrcing-plate adapted to be secured to the casket, or other article; a pivot-pin for said arm having its bearings solely in said reinforcingmlate; and a socket-plate embracing said reinforcing-plate and forming a cover for the inner end of said arm and said fulcruin-pin and offering no support for said arm or pi n, whereby the ends of said pin are wholly within the interior of said socket-plate and accessible only from the rear of said plate, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand on the 24th day of March, 1902.

EDIVARD R. SARGENT.

Witnesses:

VVILLIAM A. Rich), ANNA I. \VALLACE. 

